This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua here in london. These are your markets. Global chief economist. A lot of the focus is on the next, the mastercard trade war. A lot of the focus is on data executive vice chair on out. We see pound. Diversity and her thoughts on we are of course watching that because we are one month exactly the apple card gender bias issue. From the early election, this is bloomberg. December 12, and the u. K. After the brexit party said they will not expand conservative seats. 1. 93. 0 year yield at coming up, we will be speaking to musabbeh al kaabi, the chairman of Mubadala Petroleum at 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. That is manus cranny bringing that live. Lets kick off the show with the latest from hong kong. Rn that the city is on the brink of total breakdown as protesters rocked the citys financial district to a standstill. The chaos follows a flareup in violence after the first fatality linked to the protests. Is it different from yesterday . Is the mo
Talks as the edge towards a deal. Pboc warns of challenges ahead and warns of a slowing economy. Arabiasouth saudi lowers its target for saudi aramco ipo, but it is still expected to be one of the biggest in history. Australian markets have kicked off trading. Lets turn to sophie for what to watch. Sophie aussie shares are slightly higher by about. 1 after a twoday gain. 50 points shy of a record high we saw back in july. Altogether we are setting up for a mix to start potentially an agent given that hong kong remains a point of concern as the city faces yet another week of potential disruption. Nikkei futures in chicago swing to the downside this morning. Iecking on currency moves, want to highlight the pound is gaining ground early. This, after conservatives pledged to back Boris Johnsons brexit deal if the election goes through, if he is elected. The highest level since november 3. Aussie benchmark bonds holding study, continuing to climb after the best week for aussie 10 year bonds
Warren and the 1 . Taking on the billionaires with a new add. And icahn out with a big target. Good morning, good afternoon good evening welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan 23 degrees in the new york area. A lot to get to this morning we begin with breaking news. The latest growth figures hitting the tape moments ago how did that work out, lets go to willem. Weve got the eurozone q 3 employment numbers thats the flash estimate. The all important q 3 gdp number 1. 2 year on year. Relatively low level growth across those countries that is for the period july and september. Weve talked about the sluggish growth requiring governments to step up to the plate talking about whether they can take a coordinated approach. Some saying there are huge disagreements about how that can be achieved. Weve seen a need to get that growth higher than the 1. 2 annualized growth. We talked about slowing down to 2 or lower thank you. You can see the european markets. The
Issues that have it seems like they plagued chinatown recently, and i saw those videos of one of the incidents which was i actually couldnt watch it. I started to watch it and i said i dont need to seem see an elderly person get assaulted. Is there an increase or is it that we are seeing more coverage to the media . Some of the incidents that have happened are absolutely horrific how are things trending in the central just take district, and mainly in the chinatown area overall, crime has been on the decrease in chinatown. That includes all categories except for aggravated assault, which is when i last checked, was 21 crimes yeartodate. Pretty much Everything Else has been reduced in chinatown. The Central District includes chinatown. It doesnt take away from the crimes that you are describing. They are really awful crimes. The trend is downward except for the aggravated assault. And then this may again be based on some of the media reporting and some of the things that i have seen and
And bogota. We begin in hong kong. Police fired tear gas in the after Central District the shooting of a protester increased tension. Chief executive carrie lam warned of violence leading to a point of no return, and to restore calm. Still anyf there is Wishful Thinking that by escalating violence, the Hong Kong Government will yield to pressure to satisfy the socalled political demands, violence is not going to give us any solution to the problems hong kong is facing. Alix 20 me on the phone from hong kong is joining the on the phone from hong kong is caringly is karen leigh. Walk us through what happened over the last when he four hours. We heard carrie lam warning that violence isnt going to help their goals, signaling that she will not bow to demands after five months. Of the most violent days weve seen one of the most violent days since protests started. There were clashes between protesters and police, a protester shot by a live round. That triggered a day of violence with these